Vomiting to improve Beauty
When a child is told, “you are eating yourself sick,” it is generally a warning that something bad will happen if they don’t be careful with their diet. But, you better believe eating to get sick and then vomiting was a recreational activity in the 18th and 19th centuries. They would eat the wrong things to induce vomiting voluntarily though you would have a terrible stomachache now.
Vomiting To Improve Beauty
Chalk is harmless to ingest, but many people are allergic to it, so they avoid it altogether. Back then, some women used it as a form of makeup (powder for their faces) and thought it made their skin look paler, which was the trend then. They would eat the chalk and allow it to induce vomiting (which is a way of making you look pale). Gladly that trend has ended because being sick is nothing sweet.
